Bifurcation for an overdetermined problem in the complement of a ball in
$\mathbb{R}^N$
Abstract
We investigate the existence of a family nontrivial exterior domain
$\tilde{\Omega}\subset
\mathbb{R}^{N}$
$\left(N\geq2,
N\neq3\right)$, bifurcating from the
complement of a ball such that \begin{equation}
\Delta u=0\,\,
\text{in}\,\,\tilde{\Omega},
\,\,
u=u_0,\,\,\partial_\nu
u=\gamma
H+C_0\,\,\text{on}\,\,\partial\tilde{\Omega},\,\,\,\lim
_{r \rightarrow+\infty}
u=0\,\,
\text{or}\,\,+\infty\nonumber
\end{equation} has a positive solution, where the
Neumann condition is non-constant with $H$ is mean curvature and
$\gamma$, $C_0$ are constants. This result gives a
negative answer to the Berestycki-Caffarelli-Nirenberg conjecture on
overdetermined elliptic problems in the complement of the ball.